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A grain of wheat (Rev. ed.)

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Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work.

A Grain of Wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya.

As the action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, this is a novel of stories within stories, a narrative interwoven with myth as well as allusions to real-life leaders of the nationalist struggle, including Jomo Kenyatta.

At the centre of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret.

As events unfold, compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed and loves are tested.

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Penguin Classics
0141186992 / 9780141186993
Paperback / softback
823.914
07/02/2002
United Kingdom
English
Classics
xiv, 242p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: Heinemann, 1967.